Pipe and radiator support



Dec; 24,1929.

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ATTORNEY Dec. 24, 1 929. JJ FABER 1,740,769

PIPE AND RADIATOR SUPPORT Filed May 14. 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 WITNESS INVENTQR I a ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 24, 1929 JERRY A. FABER, OE HAWTHORNE,-NEW JERSEY PIPE AND RADIATOR SUPPORT Application. filed May 14,

This invention relates to supports for radiators, coils, stretches of piping, etc. (hereinafter termed the supported element), and its principalobject is to provide a simple 5 and inexpensive support .which shall have ample strength and stability, which will facilitate the work of installing the supported element, and which will permit certain necessary adjustments in the installing operation;

Iii-the drawings,

Fig. l is a perspective view of the improved support;

Fig. 2 a vertical sectional view thereof,

showing a radiator in'place and in vertical section;

' Fig. 3 isa section on line 3-3, Fig. 2;

Fig. 3 shows the blank from which the hanger is formed;

Fig. 4 isa rear elevation of a certain spacer;

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig.2, excepting that a radiator of a different type is shown;

Fig. 6 is a section on-line 66, Fig.5

Fig. 7 shows howa plurality of the sup- 5 portsmay be used-where the Verticalcapacity of asingle one isinsufficient, being a vertical sectional view of such supports and pipes carried thereby; and

F ig. 8 is a side elevation and plan of a form which the hanger may take.

The. character 1 designates the main or carrying member ofmy support, it being. cons structedasfollows so as to-be at once inexpensive and yet well adapted to carry the load to be imposed on it: A strip of heavy sheet metal ispressedso that its end portions 2are bent-ofl at right. angles and in the same direction fromits intermediate portion 3 to form. end'lwalls and then their extremities 4 bent. away from each other and at right angles, to form ears lying in a plane parallel with-that of portion 2.; and for stiflening the portion 3'against buckling and imparting a finishits side edges may be bent oflas at 5 at right angles in the same direction as the portions 2, portion 3 otherwise remaining. planiform. l/Vhenin use the saidmember stands upright, and portion 3 has openings or notches in the form preferably of horizontal su- 50 perposedslots 6. Each ear 1 has an opening 7 1928. Serial No. 277,453:

punched therein,

the material punched out being left attached- (at the relatively outer end of such opening) 1 and projecting forward as a-hook Sprovidedwith a hole The character 10 designates one of the hangers, also constructed so as to be at once inexpensive and-yet well adaptedto carry the load to be imposed uponit, to wit, as follows: A blank- 00 of's-uit'ablyheavy sheet metalhaving two counterpart halvesshownin F ig. 3

isfolded' on the central on e or" the three broken linesinthat figure and bent in opposite directions onthe other two-lines, thus material being-bent backward to-form-pairs of hooks 14. T the hook 11 may at 15.

and downward he twoplies of be riveted together as shown The hookslatare so spaced as all to enter any group'of slots 6 ofith'e same number.

The hanger 16 shown in Fig to the one just 8 is identical described excepting that it is designed to receive a radiator or other supported element. pendsirom its point of suppor that is. suspended, i. e., de-

t in the hanger.

When the supported element isa radiator and isstepped, or. reaches. up

from. its point of support inthe hanger, aistay device to support. it against outward tilting. may be employed, such here consisting.

of a stem 17 threadediat both ends'and havingone end extending through oneof' the: slots in the portion 3 of member 1- and provided with means 18 (as nuts and washers) to clampsaidtportion and its.- other end equipp 19, asa nutiand washer, able stop or head engaging two loops of the radiator A. the stem passes as shown.

Member 1 is securedzto the the opening 7 ofsthe upper ear ber, being headed as ed with means to: form. an adj ustoutwardlyv the between which wallB as follows A stud :20 is-drivenintothe Wallthrough tot-said memshown to hold 'said'member up to the wall, as by having a flange or washer 21v thereon. tical ment with member 1, in the p by receiving a nut 23 which part of said member in that'i Onthisis'stepped a verscrew 22 which has threaded engageresent example is effectually a t lsrecelved in hook 8 (which is penetrated by said screw) and is held thereby against turning. A similar stud 24, screw 25 and nut 26 cooperate, with the lower ear 4 in the same way, excepting that they actas a take-up and as means to confine the member 1 to vertical position and against displacement in installing the coil. Each stud may be regarded as a proj ection from the building wall and as affording a bearing surface of such wall (facing in the one case upwardly and in the other downwardly) for the screw.

In some instances (Figs. 5 and 6) the conformation of the supported element, as a radiator, will be such that the latter, when the means 19 of the stay device is manipulated to draw the same toward the wall, will find a rest backwardly against some part of the support. Where such is not the case the spacer 27 shown in Figs. 2 and 4 may be used. This is formed by folding a rectangular sheet metal blank on a transverse line and then bending ofi its extremities on lines parallel to the first line and in opposite directions, thus producing a two-ply web 28 and two wings 29; the wings have punched-out hooks 30' to engage in slots 6 of member 1.

Where the supported element or elements extend to a height exceeding the height of a single support the supports may be superposed, as in Fig. 7. In such case the superposed supports may be interlocked, as by a tongue 81 formed on the end of one and a hole 32 formed in the adjoining end wall of the other, and in that case the upper support need have the described means for securing it to the wall B only at the top, its wall 2 and such means beingomitted at the bottom as shown in said Fig. 7 This figure shows that the support is adapted for sustaining coils, or equivalent lengths of piping of various diameters extending horizontally, as in tunnels.

Adjustments to suit different requirements are possible by varying the vertical position of the hanger on the member 1, i. e., by engaging its hooks at any elevation in the vertical series of slots in member 1; by adjusting member 1 vertically with respect to the wall by turning screws 22; by shifting the hanger horizontally in the slots. The adj ustability of the member 1 with respect to the wall B makes it possible for the workman to bring the. two or more supports for the supported element up to their work if otherwise this would not be possible by merely shifting the hangers up or down in the series of slots 6.

This is the first instance in devices of this class where the hanger abuts the building wall and is supported by vertically adjusts able means therein and on the hanger is vertically adjustable means to carry the element to be supported.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A supporting structure for the purpose described including, in combination, a carrying member having a superposed series of horizontal slots, vertically adjustable means to support said member on an upright wall, and a hanger member for the element to be supported having hook means engaging in and adjustable lengthwise of the slots of the carrying member. V

2. A supporting means for the purpose de scribed including, in combination, a carrying member having a wall to stand substantially parallel with the surface of an upright building wall and'also having portions at top and bottom to space its said wall from the building wall and the upper one of said portions formed with an upright apertured ear to bear against the building wall and receive in its aperature a projection from said wall, and screw-including means engaged with a part of the ear and adapted to rest on said projection, and means on said wall of the carrying member to support the element to be supported.

3. A supporting means for the purpose described including, in combination, a carrying member having a wall to stand substantially parallel with the surface of an upright build ing wall and also having portions at top and bottom to space its said wall from the building wall formed with an upright apertured ear to bear against the building wall, a headed stud to be driven into said wall through the aperture of the ear and have its head bearing against the ear, and screw-including means engaged with a part of the ear and adapted to rest on said stud.

a. A supporting means for the purpose described including, in combination, a carrying member having a wall to stand substantiall parallel with the surface of an upright build ing wall and also having portions at top and bottom to space its said wall from the building wall ano the upper one of said portions formed with an upright apertured ear to bear against the building wall, said building wall having a projection, a nut underlying a portion of and held nonrevoluble by said ear, and a screw engaged with the nut and adapted to rest on said projection.

5. A supporting means for the purpose described including, in combination, an upright carrying member to stand in face to face relation to a building wall, vertically adjustable means at the top portion of said member to support the latter on an upwardly facing surface of a building wall structure, and vertically adjustable means at the bottom portion of said member to bear against a downwardly facing surface of said structure.

6. In combination, with a carrying memher, a hanger memberconsisting of a sheet metal blank folded upon itself and having edge portions bent away from each other on lines approximately parallel with the line of and the upper one of said portions 1 fold and standing in the same plane and forming flanges to bear against said member, said member and flanges having intercatching portions and the folded portion being adapted to form a support for the element to be supported.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JERRY A. FABER. 

